Greatest Musician Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.

Bob Dylan, 75, becomes the first Musician to receive the Nobel Prize award in its 115 years history.

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Bob Dylan is an Legendary american songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He has been one of the most influential musician in the world of music culture. On Thursday, the Nobel committee stretched the boundaries of literature, after awarding the Nobel for his lyrical achievement.

This literary Nobel prize puts Dylan on same page with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison.

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For the Nobel committee, lyrics like “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” and “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” puts Dylan on the same page with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and other American Nobel laureates.

Is Bob Dylan a literature?

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After awarding the literary honor to the Dylan, the Nobel committee has ignited both applause as well as a whole new level of discussion on “Is Bob Dylan Literature?” or “whether songwriting(no matter how good it is) can be leveled as literature.”

Despite the award has gain a fierce debate, Some Prominent writers like Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates and Salman Rushdie are praising the Nobel decision and celebrating Mr. Dylan’s literary achievements who called Mr. Dylan “the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition”.

Bob Dylan’s renowned albums, which the Swedish Academy described as having “a tremendous impact on popular music,” include “Bringing It All Back Home” and “Highway 61 Revisited” (1965), “Blonde on Blonde” (1966), “Blood on the Tracks” (1975), “Oh Mercy” (1989), “Time Out Of Mind” (1997), “‘Love and Theft’” (2001) and “Modern Times” (2006). His 38 studio albums have sold over 120 million copies worldwide.

The Academy also added: “Dylan has the status of an icon. His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a steady stream of secondary literature.”

Mr. Dylan’s many honors include Grammy, Academy and Golden Globe awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, won a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

The Nobel comes with a prize of 8 million Swedish kronor, or just over $900,000. The literature prize is given for a lifetime of writing rather than for a single work.